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I had forgotten X-2 let you skip cutscenes. It's mentioned in reviews of the Japanese version doesn't have the option to skip cutscenes in FFX. I can almost quote the Mt Gagazet Seymour fight word for word since I died there so often as a kid.

Even the Kingdom Hearts HD collection added a skip option. Wow, seriously? They even put into X-2 since it was such a major problem, seems crazy that they didn't add it in for this release. Seriously though, the FFX HD collection doesn't have the option to skip cutscenes I was just playing Banner Saga when this happened, and it's amazing that more games don't have a pause screen with an option to skip. Especially in what are supposed to be immersive story-driven games. Video games are the one activity where, rare split-screen multiplayer aside, I'm often punished for having anything outside that video game in that moment. None of these really cost me much in terms of investment into that activity. I can turn off the stove to see why someone is yelling outside my door. Pushing that button skipped the whole scene, now I have no idea why I'm fighting a giant bat, and my last save was 10 minutes before that cut scene because how could I know it would trigger 20 meters before the cave entrance?" Why are you mad? Give me one second!" -or- "Well, shit. However, there are too many singleplayer games where I get punished for being in a cutscene by having the choice of either sitting through the whole thing while telling my wife, "No. Some games are just live, like League of Legends or any online multiplayer, and I've come to accept that I'm not going to be able to play those games seriously for a long time. More so, that when I'm playing video games I can't just stop when I please to address a question, answer the door, or to check what that crashing noise is coming from the living room. I think the hardest part of integrating my passion of video games with my wife and emerging family is the idea that video games are isolationist.